Description
Qi Fu Tang (Astragalus and Aconite Decoction), from Black Pearl from Red Waters (Chi Shui Xuan Zhu).
Actions: Warm yang and consolidate the exterior
Indications: Indicated for the treatment of spontaneous sweating due to yang deficiency, with unceasing spontaneous sweating, aversion to cold, cold limbs, lassitude, pale tongue with white coating, deep and slow and forceless pulse
Category: Formulas That Restore Yang to Rescue From Counterflow (Desertion).
Source: Xi S, Gong Y. Essentials of Chinese Materia Medica and Medical Formulas: New Century Traditional Chinese Medicine. Academic Press/Elsevier, 2017, pp. 537–538.
Composition
Energetics dose-weighted
The formula's overall nature, taste balance and channel reach, weighted by each herb's dose. Classical formulas often pair warm and cool herbs on purpose, so a net figure summarises the mix — it doesn't describe every herb in it.
Nature
Net warm (+1.25)
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Grams by band: warm 75%, hot 25%.
Taste
- pungent 13%
- sweet 88%
From 100% of the weighed grams.
Channels reached
- Spleen 100%
- Lung 75%
- Heart 25%
- Kidney 25%
Share of the grams entering each channel, from 100% of the weighed grams.
Dose-weighted from each herb's recorded nature, taste and channels (missing values are left out, never counted as neutral). It describes the composition — it is not a recommendation.
Preparation
Decide the dose according to the discretion, and decoct the ingredients with water for oral use
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Formula family
Full herb lists
- Zai Zao San = this formula + Gui Zhi Tang + Shen Fu Tang + Xi Xin, Chuan Xiong, Fang Feng, Qiang Huo and Chi Shao
Each entry reads as the larger formula written out: “+” adds its other catalogue cores, then the herbs none of them hold. A catalogue formula counts as a core only when at least 80% of its herbs are present, no more than 1 is absent, and the absent herb is not its chief.
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